Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel.
Back when I wrote Watchmen I still trusted the viperous bastards, I had a different feeling about American superhero comics… [+]
100 million dollars – that’s what they spent on the Watchmen film which nearly didn’t come out because of the… [+]
We had one particularly dense Hollywood producer say, ‘You don’t even have to do the book, just stick your name… [+]
There is more integrity in comics. It sounds simplistic, but I believe there is a formula that you can apply… [+]
The main reason why comics can’t work as films is largely because everybody who is ultimately in control of the… [+]
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen film cost 100 million because Sean Connery wanted 17 million of that – and a… [+]
It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what… [+]
There was a clause that essentially said that, if in the future, there were any documents or contracts that I… [+]
There’s a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme… [+]
I have largely, completely given up on the comics industry. I really don’t believe it is going to do anything… [+]
There hasn’t been a more sophisticated comic released in the 25 years since, which I find profoundly depressing, because [Watchmen]… [+]
Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I’ve tried to say, ‘Look, we are all crappy superheroes,’ because personal… [+]
Comics are more energetic, more vital than novels. They are these seductive visual tracts, they are fast.
I’m completely happy and confident about the comics medium because even if, as I hope, the comics industry collapses tomorrow,… [+]
Things that we did in Watchmen on paper could be frankly horrible or sensationalist or unpleasant if you were to… [+]
There’s something very warm and soothing about looking at an old Batman comic you haven’t looked at since you were… [+]
I remember thinking after September 11, “This has surely got to be the beginning of the end of American superheroes.”… [+]
Comics were for children and for intellectually subnormal people, whereas graphic novel sounds like a much more sophisticated proposition.
It has been proven — I believe by Pentagon tests in the late ’80s — that comics are actually the… [+]
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country… [+]